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:) it is not a psychosis rant or what, but i do agree that i added a lot of sarcasm in those lines.. every country had done some mistakes in the past. Like india sent IPF to Srilanka to fight against LTTE etc., but those mistakes are more when it comes to US. US had put it’s finger in almost every corner of the world for some reason or the other. It interfered as many times as it can in other countries’ internal affairs and it is visible to the world that there are certain times when the world thought that UN is a dancing doll in US’s hands. There is no one to question US and most of the times the US governments think that what it is doing is right but in reality it is not.. that is the reason why US has made unwanted enemies during the years.. It is nothing to do with the common man in US, but the governments bought a bad image by paying huge amounts of money in the name of unwanted interference.

that is the reason why sometimes i feel though CANADA is just next to US, canada’s image in the world’s point of view is lot more better than US, UK or australia’s image..

but i do agree that i added a lot of sarcasm in those lines.. every country had done some mistakes in the past. Like india sent IPF to Srilanka to fight against LTTE etc., but those mistakes are more when it comes to US. US had put it’s finger in almost every corner of the world for some reason or the other. It interfered as many times as it can in other countries’ internal affairs

Huh?? Mistakes? India didn't make a mistake with the IPKF. The mistake was not fighting to win. A nation-state's duty is to ITSELF, not to some other nation. India had every right to seek it's own interests, just like it did in 1971 when it told the US to not interfere, just like it defended itself in Kargil.

The US is a superpower, understand -- and even more so in the 50s to the 90s. We had 40% of the world's GDP, the largest, most advanced and most powerful military in the world. And we were a benevolent superpower -- can you imagine what would have happened if communist China or the USSR had been a super-superpower instead? India (and a lot of the world) would have been speaking Mandarin or Russian.

Secondly, the US as a superpower HAS to police the world. If the US doesn't, then it gets blamed (example, in Rwanda and now in tDarfur, the cry goes up "Why doesn't the US invade?"). The US's failing is that it didn't always look out for #1, which other countries would do.